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SUBMITTER: Parks AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7354945 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parks Anastacia R AR Escalante-Semerena Jorge C JC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200622 27
In eukaryotic cells, the N-terminal amino moiety of many proteins is modified by N-acetyltransferases (NATs). This protein modification can alter the folding of the target protein; can affect binding interactions of the target protein with substrates, allosteric effectors, or other proteins; or can trigger protein degradation. In prokaryotes, only ribosomal proteins are known to be N-terminally acetylated, and the acetyltransferases responsible for this modification belong to the Rim family of p ...[more]